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Commit 309944be authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, vdso: Zero-pad the VVAR page



By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment.  As a
result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will
leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page.  Zero-pad it to a
full page to fix this issue.

This has probably been broken since the VVAR page was introduced.
On QEMU, if you dump the run-time contents of the VVAR page, you can
find entertaining strings from seabios left behind.

It's remotely possible that this is a security bug -- conceivably
there's some BIOS out there that leaves something sensitive in the
few K of memory that is exposed to userspace.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-12-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent 7c03156f
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